I played the 2600 version of Pong a few weeks ago. Sure, it's simple. But it's still good. Just enough action to be entertaining, easy enough to understand imm

I played the 2600 version of Pong a few weeks ago. Sure, it's simple. But it's still good. Just enough action to be entertaining, easy enough to understand immediately, and just hard enough to be challenging. It's a bit harder to play these days than when it was new. First, paddle controllers haven't aged well, and can be very hard to control if they're not recently refurbished. Second, modern TVs have lag. It's very tiny. Not enough to be noticeable with todays games and consoles. But on something as close to the hardware as Pong on a vintage machine, it's there. I thought maybe it was because of the composite encoding and decoding, so I switched to a machine with an RF connection and it was still there. Tiny, but there. I switched to an old portable tube TV with RF in, and it was perfect. Seems like there's too much going on with modern displays to handle simple things. I guess that's why my 4K LG TV takes longer to boot up than my tube TV takes to warm up.